Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Organizations in every industry and geography are increasingly indebted to external talent, whom we term agile talent , to augment their resources in strategic areas. The benefits are substantial: Agile talent provides organizations with greater flexibility, speed, and competitive insight. Here’s the problem. Some are excellent.

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

They reported directly to the CTO. Since 1997, there have been numerous waves of innovation theories, models and practices such as Disruption from Below , Open Innovation , Lead User , Design Thinking , Test & Learn , Product-Market Fit , Agile/Lean Innovation , Startup Collaboration , to name a few of the more prominent waves.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Starting a global engineering operation “essentially doubles the expense for 6-12 months,” says former Informatica CTO, James Markarian. ” Anurag Garg, head of Polycom’s India Innovation Center echoes this, “Video conferencing as a tool is a big enabler for better collaboration with remote teams.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

The only competitive advantage comes though agility, keeping ahead of the competition, moving on to the next technology wave. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. IT management Information & technology Operations' As with American Airlines, each competitive advantage with IT is temporary.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

Godbout was executive director at 18F before departing to become chief technology officer for the EPA. Because of that, the people who were in government who couldn’t take risks could come to us, and we could collaborate on something. In fact, we’re not even sure you can legally do Agile!

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

In response to the rapid advance of cloud computing, IBM’s software engineering groups embraced the Agile development method – with teams focused on incremental delivery of new capabilities every few weeks or months. With this approach, cross-functional teams quickly develop prototypes to bounce off of customers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. These robots are capable of collaborating to pick a typical 50-item order in a matter of minutes. Now is the time for political thinking and leadership that is truly holistic, agile, bold, and disruptive. Microprocessor (CPU) with human brain. AI at Ocado.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Marketing’s growing data demands of speed, availability, and agility in rapidly changing customer behaviors don’t align with IT’s modus operandi of developing and maintaining hard coded, legacy systems. The CMO and CIO (and potentially the CTO) must bring complete transparency to the process. Collaboration IT management Marketing'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

New, more agile , software development tools and testing methods are utilized. They can also unify technology initiatives and start to foster global collaboration. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. IT management Information & technology Operations' IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Contemporary organizations may do this process in a more agile and collaborative way, but the expectation is that PMs know best about what customers need and engineering is there to serve. Pro: Breakthrough technology can offer customers things they didn’t even know they needed.

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Planview

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Just as the beloved song builds its festive tale one gift at a time, our story this year has been one of growth, collaboration, and gratitude. This accolade reflects our commitment to building a culture that supports adaptive and agile project management practices. Allen, Chief Product Officer at Planview.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

In the spirit of becoming more adaptive , organizations have rushed to implement Agile software development. But many have done so in a way that actually makes them less agile. These companies have become agile in name only, as the process they’ve put in place often ends up hurting engineering motivation and productivity.

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